They allege that the Dera chief was jailed because he is a Hindu and it is easy to target Hindu organisations.

In a video talking about the conversions Dera spokesperson Sandeep Mishra is shown in conversation with a masked Dera follower.

'If you love Hindustan, you will be in tears when you learn that being Hindu is a crime in our own country. When our faith is under attack, why not convert? I am being joined by people of similar mindsets,' Mishra says in the video.

The masked person responds that converting to Islam will be beneficial for them as nobody touches Muslims even when they throw stones.

'We face bullets even when we are empty handed. Our leader is in touch with Muslim leaders and we will convert when one lakh followers will give their consent,' says the Dera follower, adding that all converts will remain in India.

But sources claim that he continues to pull the strings of the Dera cult from behind bars and his followers have now threatened mass conversions to Islam

Sources told Mail Today that the brain behind the fresh controversy is Gurmeet Singh himself and he knows how to play the religion card when in trouble.

Despite being behind the bars, Singh is busy managing the troubled sect and guiding his aides, it's alleged.

Sources claimed that apart from well-wishers in the BJP led state government, Gurmeet Singh also has cops and bureaucrats as his friends, who might be helping him managing Dera affairs from jail.

He was jailed in August for raping two women in 2002, sparking mass protests across Haryana

Interestingly, both the mobile numbers provided by Gurmeet were not verified by the jail authorities.

'Gurmeet Ram Rahim has not been speaking to anyone in Dera since his arrest as the numbers provided by him were not verified. The allegations are not based on facts,' said Dr K P Singh, DGP Prisons, Haryana.

Former Dera follower Gurdas Singh Toor and Gurmeet's relative Bhupinder Singh Gora said that Dera chief knows how to exploit religion to divert the attention when things go against him.

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'He is a clever fox and knows the power of religion. He used to change the names of his Hindu followers to Muslim names just to prove that Muslims are also his followers,' said Toor.

Hindu right-wing organisations have taken a serious note of the threat. Chandigarh-based Vishav Hindu Parishad leader Vijay Bhardwaj has slammed Gurmeet Singh for using the religion card to divert public attention.

'The claims made by him that he has crores of followers are false. He has a few lakh supporters, who are non-Hindus as they had joined Dera. The society will disown Dera chief and his followers as they have been accused of exploiting the innocent female followers,' Bhardwaj said.